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Great reasons to choose FatCow

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FatCow is a hosting service which appears to be entirely focused on shared hosting, although it provides a wide range of services and support to complement it. Its selling point is simple: simple hosting facilities and simple to use services, eliminating the need for technical fiddling.

There are two plans available, The Original FatCow Plan and The Minimoo. The company offers a variety of professional services which can be added on (at extra cost).

FatCow has been operating for well over 10 years now. The company was founded in 1998 in Albuquerque in the USA but it has since been bought by Endurance International who also own a number of other web hosting companies, such as Bluehost. Endurance International provides online solutions for 2 million customers through 40 different brands, many of which they have acquired over the last few years.

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FatCow Ease of Use

If you're new to Web hosting and website building, FatCow is pretty good at hand- (or hoof) holding. From good customer support, to a few basic tools, there's plenty here to help out newbies. Users can choose to build sites with the simple drag-and-drop tool from Weebly, or use FatCow's specialist WordPress hosting option (complete with free themes).

Interested in opening an online store? FatCow’s e-commerce services can help get up and running in no time. And if you need an extra-secure site, FatCow SSH access is available at an affordable rate. Email access is also a cinch to set up, thanks to the easily adjustable FatCow SMTP settings in the domain dashboard.

FatCow Uptime/Downtime

FatCow does not publish their uptime or downtime statistics and it doesn’t give any uptime guarantees. However, the data centre combines round the clock systems management with onsite personnel and each server is clustered with another, which means if one goes down, another takes over. These servers are in turn are backed up to another set of servers to ensure that your data isn’t lost.

The data centre is located in Boston in the USA and provides half a petabyte of storage space across over 800 servers. The servers are protected by 2 firewalls and the data centre is monitored by security personnel 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

If you want your site to be backed up automatically, you can purchase a backup package which gives you daily backups and a backup and restore tool. Otherwise, you’ll have to perform your own backups as and when you need to.